Richard Sherman's 4 Ways to Improve Officiating

[WUnderhill]

Pretty ironic coming from a member of the Seahawks secondary.

[Varking]

1 hour ago, thomas96 said:

It's not something that should be handled during the game. Plays should forget that play and get ready for the next one. The refs should stick to doing the only thing that's important for them to do and that's officiate the game. So much goes on in a game it's completely illogical to have them trying to explain things to every single player. Even without them having to do that they've fuged up the clock numerous times. Having them explain to players during the game wouldn't even help anyways because the player would need to see what he was doing and he can't during the game. Sherman's proposing better communication between refs and players. It sounds to me that he's just being a complete bitch about calls and wants to be able to whine about it in the game to get the call changed, like CryBaby was doing at the end of the Pats-Panthers Monday night game in 2013.

In other sports, like Basketball, Baseball, and even Hockey, the referees and umpires will tell a player what they did wrong or if the ball was too high or low, or if they didn't set their feet in time for a pick play. I don't understand why its a big deal to you to have an NFL referee tell a player that where his hand was made the WR turn his hips or something which is why the flag was thrown. You want the player who just got a penalty to forget about the play for illegal use of his hands to ignore it and do it again because he wasn't told what the issue was to begin with? And after two or three times of calling this player for this penalty with no explanation this means the ref would have effectively made it so that the QB can target this guy the rest of the game because he will be scared to get close to the WR. The ref shouldn't have this big of an impact on the game. Communication can be quick and easy and there is no need to basically tell a player piss off I don't have to explain to you in three seconds what I flagged you for.

[PanthersATL]

it's the 90-10 rule. The refs absolutely get 90% of calls right. They see things that we all miss until we see it on replay. 

It's how to fix the 10% that's the question.

 

[ThPantherFan]

11 hours ago, sharkkiller said:

Sooooo...instant replay?

A little more elaborate, but yes.  Just an extension of.  The problem would be when to use it so it wouldn't delay the game any longer than it is now.

[Chaos]

Just send all replays up to the booth please.  Stop making the head official decide a crucial call by peering through a glorified view master. 

[carpanfan96]

Well written article and I would say that simplifying the rules and adding the 8th ref would be huge.

[Panthers8969]

17 hours ago, csx said:

It's 95% rulebook issues to me. Nobody could be what fans consider a good ref with the rules in place and without benefit of the views the fans have.

this. The catch/ no catch is more the rulebook sucking dick than the refs. They don't even know what a catch is

[TheNewStandard]

18 hours ago, Darth Biscuit said:

I think you could throw a rock at it and that would improve the officiating I've seen this year...

The awful officiating and the fact that this team is still unbeaten, is as much of an enigma as any other part of the Panther's record.

The Ed Hockaloogie game still blows my mind.

[DOMOMAN]

The fact that the NFL, making a multi billion dollar profit each year can't set aside a few million bucks to pay 32 guys to be full time refs is beyond me. It would drastically improve the on field product, making for better entertainment. Speaking of entertainment every single NFL game is covered by the most impressively sized television set-up in the sporting world, why not use that more often? Simply get a guy in every stadium, in the production room behind the guy on the EVS machine who can replay every angle in a matter of seconds. The game is mostly stopped anyway after a play and it would not take as long as instant replay review which I (And I work in TV) still don't know why takes the ages it does unless the system is somehow 15 years outdated.

Then again the NFL has never really cared about the on field product, they are busniness-men and as long as we keep watching, buying and talking about the NFL when refs are part-timers and blows calls, then they don't care